Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-31
Farmers Sons.


| For letters that will never come.
-TDetroit Free Press.
Farmers Sons.
Why is it that most of the great and
successful men, either in politics,
finance or letters, in this country, are
the sons of the farmer, or of poor par
entage? This is g question of fearful
import to the wealthy and business
men now treading SO successfully the
paths of wealth. Whence cometh the
Lincolns and Grants of the political
field? What wealth Or royal prestige
of parental position boletered up their
early or later successful struggles? Or
where WAS the education or the
surfeited exchequers of the ancestors
that laid the financial foundations of
Gould, Stewart, Vanderbilt and thou
sands of others scattered all over the
country? They were orphans or sons
| of farmers unknown to fame, and
whose signatures were unknown to
bank counters. As generalrule, sue
cessful business men merchants, poll
ticians Or bankers) were members of
large families. No hotbed influence OF
wealth, or the peUted training of an
! only child, dwarfed their early Efforts
at self-reliance. No extravaganza use
Of unearned money smothered the
great lesson Of economy, without
which no solid foundation of wealth
was ever laid. In early life no lesson
Of caste or exclusiveness of blood
chilled their sociaoility, but their
minds were imbued with the idea that
true worth made men and women of
| the first class.
The farmers son raised on the scan
| ty farm, Or the half-orphan of q poor
widow, has no carriage in which to
ride, so the son soon learns to walk
| to fame and fortune. In his youth no
| wealthy hand reaches out to sustain
and steady his steps, go he learns to
save himself, and pushes forward with
self-reliance aud conscious ability to
| distinction. His father, with bis
scanty purse, sets an example of econ
omy which clings to the son through
life. In this way the poor boy from
the farm, removed from the fashiona-
BILE vices of society, comes to manhood
| and strikes out boldly with g. deter
mination to hew his own way to char
| acter and comfort. Look around
you. poor toiling son Of the farm, and
read the history of those whom the
world now worship for their learning,
their talents and their purity in the
day OF trial. In early life they trod
the same thorny path you are now
| trying. Self-reliance Is the foundation
on which to build, adding industry,
honesty and perseverance. How good
it is to feel In ife's young manhood,
with the smiles of Providence, we can
enter the arena Of conflict, uncontam-
mated with evil associations, and not
enfeebled by an early life of idleness,
and be permitted, unaided, to hew
out, with q strong and willing heart, a
position with our country's true no.
bilitY - American Cultivator.
Points for Milk Producers.
AS 81 rule dairymen do not hang to-
gether, and SO spectators have the
chance to hang them separately.
There ia no reason why the farmers
of half O. township should not agree to
bring all their new milk or cream to
central point and pursue the same
| course OF the spectators as to manu-
| facture-make full-stock cheese or
| combine butter and cheese making =
being governed by the state of the
market. Then if the product be
shipped to responsible dealers the
| profits go TO the farmers, who are not
obliged to divide with the local specu-
lator; and il by chance now and then
q loss occurs, it need not create con-
| sternation, for as it is the speculator
| assesses all his losses on the succeed
| ing purchasers.
2. Where there is patron factory
the patrons reserve the right to, and
| do, skim the nights milk during sum-
| and fall, at least three out of four
milkings. The lack of uniformity in
setting milk, and the difference in the
| conditions, cause it to reach the fac
tory in every stage of quality, and
the result is in most cases cheese be-
| low the average standard of half
skins. This the buyer takes advant-
age of, buying the whole lot at the
| price OF the poorest half. II the pat
rons had set up the same standard of
quality for milk that the buyer insists
upon, twice per day delivery, this
| milk could have been made into first
class stock, and one point in profitable
dairying secured.
3. The patrons who make butter at
home lose largely by not cooperating
in it's manufacture; and they produce
the usual quality OF store batter, that
is exchanged for Goldfish, pound for
pound, when II it had been made at
the factory it would have had quality
and uniformity about it, and being
sold as last as made, and in large
enough quantity to attract attention
of butter buyers, not barter mer-
chants, it would be sold for money,